The Nonagon: Bulletin of the New Hampshire Numismatic Association

THE

NON AGON

FALL - 1996

NEW HAMPSHIRE NUMISMATIC ASSOCIATION

N E <7 h a ... ? S n x H 3 J U J I 3 i i\ TIC A330CIATI0j.J

ARTHUR AND PRUE FITTS NUMISMATIC SCHOLARSHIP

Arthur and Prudence Fitts have established a full scholarship for an adult collector from New England to the ANA
Summer Seminar in 1997, July 12 - 18. The scholarship includes tuition, class materials, room, and board. The
student must pay for transportation costs to and from Colorado Springs, the location of the seminar.

It is the desire of the Committee to award this scholarship to a collector who will benefit from it, one who has shown
a commitment to numismatics in New England. It is also our desire that all applicants have an equal opportunity to
win the award. It is with these goals in mind that we establish the criteria for awarding the scholarship as follows:

1 . The winner of the scholarship will be determined by a random drawing of all eligible applicants. The
drawing will be held at the March 1997, meeting of the Boston Numismatic Society. The winner must
accept the scholarship within seven days of notification. If for some reason that person cannot attend the
Seminar, a second (and subsequent) name will be drawn and have the same response time. The scholarship
will be awarded to the first person to firmly commit to attendance. Transportation to and from Colorado
Springs is the responsibility of the winner.

2. The period of eligibility shall be between 1 January 1996 and 1 March 1997. An applicant may become
eligible for this award in any one of four ways:

a. Publish a numismatic article in a local, regional, or national numismatic periodical. Enclose a
copy of the article as published. If a submitted article has not been published by the deadline, a
statement of Intent to Publish from the periodical is sufficient to meet eligibility. The editors of
NENA News are willing to publish any and all articles submitted, and shall give the necessary
certifications.

-or-

b. Enter a competitive numismatic exhibit in a local, regional, or national numismatic competition.
Judges’ scoring sheets or a statement from the sponsor of the competition are sufficient proof of
exhibit. The annual NENA Conference and Convention is an excellent venue for exhibits, and
certification shall be automatic.

-or-

c. Make a numismatic presentation to a local, regional, or national numismatic group. Talks to local
clubs present excellent opportunities to establish eligibility, which must be certified by club
officers.

-or-

d. Those who cannot become eligible by any of the three means above may be nominated by any
numismatic club in New England. Each of these clubs may nominate one and only one person for
the award. It is recommended by the Committee that clubs do not nominate a person who is
eligible by any of the other means.

APPLICATION FORM

NAME PHONE

ADDRESS AGE

CITY ST ZIP

QUALIFICATION: ( ) ARTICLE ( ) TALK ( ) EXHIBIT ( ) CLUB RECOMMENDATION
(PLEASE ENCLOSE THE REQUIRED PROOFS)

I understand that if I win, I must commit to attending the 1997 ANA Summer Seminar. If I cannot commit by the
deadline required by the Committee, I will forfeit this scholarship and another name will be drawn for the award. I
certify that the submitted material is my own work.

SIGNATURE DATE

Committee Use Only: Received Receipt sent

Send to Fitts Scholarship Oomnittee.P.O, Box 3003, Ilashua, II. II. 03061 before har. 1, 1997

NE-17 EAi'PSH IRE NUMISMATIC

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Vol. XXXIV, No* 1

41 ST TRI-STATE EXHIBITION

WILL BE HELL OCTOBER 19TH

New Hampshire Collectors’ Club
will hold the 41st annual Tri-State
Collectors’ Exhibition from 9 to 5
on Saturday, Oct. 19 at Bektash Temple
189 Bembroke Road, Concord. A 7/ell
lighted hall with pleanty of free park-
ing make this an ideal location. It has
easy access from Rt. 1-93, Rts. 202, 4,
or 9. It is just off Rt. 108. Exit Rt.106
near Perry Monuments about 1$ mile South
of Steeplegate Hall, and 3ektash Temple
is first buildibg on your right on Pembroke
Road,

About 30 dealers will have bourse
table to buy and sell coins, stamps, and
Collectibles. Bourse chairman is Kenneth

J. fancher, 416 Chestnut St., Manchester

K. H. 03201, Tel. 803-456-3598.

Exhibits compete for 10 trophies with
Governor's Trophy for Best in Show. Exhibit
chairman, Robert 1. Wester, will provide a
jl>chnre with list of classes and awards,
ocore card, and other information about
exhibit frames etc. Reserve space now,
by calling 603-225-7467. Bob works in
afternoon and rvening so late morning
is best time to call him.

There will be a special postal
station with back issues of stamps at
face value. Frederick Brofos, ", Varner,

N.H. 03278 ,?el 603-456—3598 is cachet
chairman. He will have the show cover
on sale at the show al ? ng with wooden
nickels from previous shows.

A S S 0 C I- A 731 ON
Fall, 1996, P. 761

ARE YOUR DUES PA ID 7

Your Nonagon label tells you whether
you owe dues which are 54. a year. If your
label shows 97 or higher you owe no dues.
96 means you owe dues for 1998, 96 means y
you owe dues for both 1995 an- 1993, etc.
Dues should be sent to San Allen, Box 1655,
Dover, K.H. 03820 and keep your name on
* mailing list.

Life members donjs ever have to worry
about paying dues. Send Sam $50. for a
life membership, or if over 65 send only
£25. have over 100 life members.

FITTS SCHOLARSHIP TO
ANA SUMMER SEMINAR

Arthur and Prudence Fitts have made a full
scholarship available to send an adult collector
from New England to the ANA Summer Seminar, July
12 - 18, 1997. Scholarship includes bsifcicSh, olass
materials, room and board. Student must provide
transportation to Colorado Springs, wad aay other
incidental expenses, including taxes.

The applicant must be a New England resident,
a OoiXbctor of ooin s',' 'tokens, bied&is/ ■’exonumia, or
paper money, and winner must submit a vjritten
^report kb out the seminar ' after his return'.''

.A ’oahdidate "may become eligible' to apply by(a)
-having a numismatic article published in a
;numismatit periodical ' ( suoh as the Nonagon);

-(b) Exhibiting in Numismatic competition (Tri-State)
;C? Giving a numismatic talk to a numismatic group;
l(d) ix unable to qualify under above a candidate may
be nominated by a numismatic organize tion91 per
cljib).

A qualifued applicant must send his application
to The Fitts Scholarship Committee, P. 0. Box 3003,
Nashua, N.H. 03061-3003 before Mar. 1, 1997 along v/ith
proof of wuslifioation. Winner of the scholarship
will be determined by random drawing from the
qualified applicants. Drawing will be held at the i
March meeting of the Boston Numismatic Society.

SEE APPLICATION FORM INSIDE FRONT COVER.

**« ***

NUMiSMATiC CALENDaxv.

Octo 4 Centennial Auctions, Holiday Inn, Exit 4,
Nashua, Stamps 3?M; coins etc 6 ?.M.

Oct. 18 Tri-State Exhibition Becktash Temple
189Pembroke Road, Concord, N.H. ( to 5
Oct. 20 Third Sunday Show, Holiday Inn, Exit 4,

Nashua, 9 A.M. to early afternoon
Oct. 20. 30th annual coin, stamp, and babeball card
show hang or Motor Inn 713 Hogan Rd, Bangor Me.

Nov, 3, 1996 42nd semiannual Gorham Coin Club

Holiday Inn, Exit 8, Maine Turnpike, Portland, 9-4
Also 3rd Sunday in march, 1997
Nov. 17, 3rd Sun-ay shows, Goliday Inn, Exit 4,
Norteastern Blvd., Nashua

Dec. 10, Centennial Auctions, stamp & Coin auction
Holiday Inn, Exit 4, Nashua, Consignment
deadline Nov. stamps, Nov. 7, coins Nov. 11
There will also be coin auctions Nov. 11 and
Feb. 17. Contact Jeff Kierstead at 800-882-2646
Deo. 15, 3 rd Sunday Shows, Holiday Inn, Nashua

Fall- 1996, ?. 762

New Hampshire Numismatics

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Your editor would appreciate other reports of "Good FQrs" and other N.H. tokens for
future Nonagons , Send to Viayne 3* Rich, 11 South ST, Concord, jI#H» 03301*

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N 0 U AGON

Fall, 1996, ?. 763

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COLLECTORS A HD COLLECT IiJG by Bob Fritsch (continued)

Since we have talked so much about things that are collected, it is time to examine
what 3 collection actually is. Again, Webster's definition leaves much to be desired:
"Something collected; esp: an accumulation of objects gathered for study, comparison, or
exhibition or as a hobby." However thin that definition may be, there is good stuff in
there. Note that it says that there is a specific purpose to an accumulation that makes
it a collection.

An accumulation is merely a gathering of similar objects. The word itself is from
the French word "to heap up." When I was stationed in Japan in the late Sixties, I had a
three-pound coffee can that I would dump all my Japanese change into when I came back to
the barracks each night. At the end of my tour, I took the best coin of each type and
date from that can and kept them. At that point, it ceased being an accumulation and
became a collection. That was my beginning as a coin collector also. As for the rest of
the coins, I spent them on a great three-day going-away party.

I would imagine that just about all of us have accumulations at home that are
potential collections. I have lots of refrigerator magnets, but they are just stuck on
the fridge with no particular effort at organization or classification. They are an
accumulation, but could become a collection with a little work. I have a collection of
Japanese matchbooks (if I can ever find it) that I picked up over there. I have done
nothing with them except assembling the collection with the intent of doing something
with them in the future. That is one of the differences between an accumulation and a
collection.

Since there are so few references about collections , I have come up with my own
sequence in the development of a collection, a taxonomy if you wiii. In order, the steps
are Accumulation, Organization, Research-and Knowledge, Focus, Refinement, Completion,
Dissemination, and finally Exhibition.

We have already talked about Accumulations, so I won't repeat it. However, I do
feel that most collections start with an accumulation of stuff, and when enough is
gathered, the collector begins to Organize and Classify it. This presumes Research if the
job is to be done correctly, even if it is looking up an item in the catalog. And from
Research comes Knowledge, THE MOST IMPORTANT BENEFIT FROM COLLECTING THAT I CAN SEE.
Knowledge is for life, and the mere act of building a collection means a building of
knowledge. The collection may disappear but the knowledge stays. At this point, let s
say there is just a small amount of it.

At some point in these initial efforts comes the decision to collect only certain
things in the accumulation, and that is what I call Focus. My main collections are coins
of countries I have been to. However, with the recent proliferation of "Collector only"
Non-Circulating Legal Tender coins, I have focused my collections on Circulating coins of
countries I've been to, and forget all that other junk. With Focus comes more Knowledge.

Once Focus has been determined, the collection can be Refined by adding missing
pieces and upgrading existing pieces. Add more Knowledge. If the collection is focused
narrowly enough, Completion is the eventual goal, then another collection can be started.
Some collections, though, are so broad in their Focus that they can never be completed.

Mr * reign collections are a good example. As completion nears and another collection is
cc —emplated, a new gathering of material and knowledge is needed.

Concurrent with Refinement, the collector can use the Knowledge collected and write
a book about his specialty or give a talk on it. This is Dissemination. George Mallis is
an excellent example. Not only did he write the definitive reference on Morgan Dollar
Varieties, he is an expert on coin scales and weights. But you don't have to be a real

(To be concluded)

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